Complaints against “commissioners” at the front beach: “harassing” again?

The Chief of Malay Auxillary Police or MAP in Boracay had promised to take action on the complaints regarding the “commissioners’”  somewhat “harassing” and “ambushing” way of dealing with tourists at the front beach this morning.

This followed after a complaint from a certain Jonathan Escubar, an employee on the island and had claimed - along with his relatives who were in the island for a vacation - to be a victim of these commissioners.

Escubar expressed the annoyance they felt earlier this morning explaining how their way was blocked while they were offered with sea sports activities.

Aside from this, one of his relatives who was sun-bathing was woken up by a commissioner just to offer activities of some sorts.

In line with this, MAP Island Chief, Rommel Salsona will motion his personnel to take action as a response to the complaint.

The Chief said that these commissioners should be at the vegetation area only, and were not supposed to be in the way of the tourists.

Recently he added, these agents are only allowed at stations 1 and 3, as they were prohibited to transact any activities at station 2.

Meanwhile this practice has been a usual complaint from resort owners and tourists that these commissioners appear to be of a bother to some tourists who were on the island to relax.

DRY RUN oF tHE RE-ROUTING fOR tHE ARRIVAL oF "THE LEGEND OF THE SEAS" SET oN FRIDAY

The dry run for the re-routing of traffic in Boracay will be held Friday, October 26.

This is in preparation for the arrival of the Carribbean Cruise "Legend of the Seas," Saturday, October 27.

The re-routing, according to P/S Insp. Joeffer Cabural, the Chief of Boracay Tourist Assistance Center (BTAC), is to avoid heavy traffic on Saturday when the more than 2 thousand tourists from the cruise ship will go to Boracay Island.

Related to the preparations will be the posting of Personnel from the Police, Army, Municipal Auxiliary Police (MAP), village watchmen, and other Non-Government Organizations in Boracay for the security of the visiting tourists.

Cabura also requested for cooperation and understanding from motorists, especially tricycle drivers. He included in his request the compliance to the re-routing which will be implemented starting Friday for a smooth flow of traffic.

Meanwhile, since Cabural was newly instated as the Chief of BTAC and this will the first major event in which he will be taking care of security as BTAC’s Chief, he considers it as a challenge and believes that everything will be orderly.

He added nevertheless that things were all set for the deployment of friendly forces of the government for Saturday.

ADDITIONAL CLASSROOMS tO bE REQUESTED bY tHE TOWN COUNCIL oF MALAY fROM DEPED

Additional classrooms for Boracay National High School (BNHS), Balabag is to be requested by the Town Council of Malay.

The Town Council itself had acknowledged that the school lacks classrooms and even lacks teachers.

Regarding the matter, a resolution which is now on its 2^nd reading is being prepared requesting the national government to add classrooms at BNHS.

In the resolution, the setting of fund for additional classrooms for BNHS will be requested from the Department of Education (DepEd) to maintain the quality of education for the youth at the school.

This is allegedly in light of the plan of the Local Government of Malay to add classrooms to the school but its fund is currently insufficient.

BNHS is experiencing difficulties or problems. Aside from the increasing number of students, when it rains, classrooms could not be used since the classrooms get flooded. These classrooms end up serving as homes for fishes.

“Crematorium,” solution to Boracay’s cemetery problem

A “Crematory in Boracay,” this would be the solution to the nearly packed cemetery in the island, particularly at Barangay Manoc-manoc.

This has been one of the topics discussed at the SB session last Tuesday, when SB Member Dante Pagsugiron brought up the problem about the Manoc-manoc Cemetery, where in it is almost full to capacity and has no available area for possible transfers.

Aside from that of Manoc-manoc, the SB had also observed that the same happens to the Balabag cemetery which has a rather small area.

One of the cited dilemmas is that the area appears to be utilized with no certain arrangement, causing niches or tombs to be placed in a seemingly scattered manner, thereby causing confusion to the public as to where to pass for instance.

In line with this, SB Member Esel Flores suggested that the council consider the proposition of a “Crematory in the island or Malay” more so that this is already accepted by the society.

This, he added is the only solution he sees for the problems with the cemeteries in Boracay.

ALLEGATION AGAINST a DOG CATCHER DENIED; TOWN COUNCIL tO INVESTIGATE tHE ORDINANCE oN STRAY DOGS

The dog catcher of Boracay, Jun Jun Mendoza pointedly denied the allegation by 2 Swiss nationals that he caught stray dogs and butchered and sold them.

This was exposed by Town Council Member Dante Pagsuguiron, Committee Chairman of Agriculture at the Session Wednesday morning, October 23.

This was after the allegation from the 2 Swiss nationals against Mendoza was discussed during a privilege speech at the session.

According to the Councilman, he had started the investigation or the questioning on Mendoza, and the dog catcher had denied wrongdoing.

Regarding this, Pagsuguiron had allegedly given instruction to Mendoza to take good care of caught stray dogs and to feed them correctly and that the dogs should be at the dog pound according to an Ordinance.

Because of the incident, the Councilman decided to call on the Island Administrator, Municipal Officer, and dog catchers in the island for a Committee hearing.

This is to find whether it is correct to implement the ordinance regarding stray dogs in Boracay since if a dog catcher does what was in the allegation, there will be injustice. According to the Councilman, this should be set straight.